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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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in modules prevent base artifact linking via project admin setting

In the system engineering all customers working in DNG with in the module mode. The default requirement engineer works inside a module and is not aware of the background settings in DNG, eg the artifacts are stored in a module folder and there is ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 3 Future consideration

Inhibit Remove of artifacts with child artifacts

While processing Modules and hierarchy it would be extremely valuable to inhibit removal of artifacts with child artifacts. Currently, it is possible to remove complete chapters by removing headlines. Recovering removed artifacts is not a problem,...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

[DNG]: Search from Find option and Filter/Quick search are inconsistents with multiple space

Use case: In a DNG module, 1. Create an artifact A by typing text (one space): test with one space 2. Create an artifact B by typing text (3 spaces): test with three space With Find function, 3. Search the string test-> You will find 2 results...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support to select which page is shown in File preview instead of first page

Sometimes when using e.g. Word Plugins to generate flow charts, Word stores the script on first page and the actual flow chart is on second page. This is not usable for users viewing Modules: they would like to see the flow chart instead of script...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Provide an indicator in review comment list to identify the artifacts for which comment(s) have been answered/responded

It takes VERY long to open each requirement one by one, which are part of review to check if there is a reply to a comment.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Warn the user when duplicate artifact is added to the module

Currently, users are allowed to use same artifacts in one module which are duplicate entries and causes confusion for other users. It would be really useful if we get a warning message when the user is trying to add an artifact which is already ex...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Make the common permission properties editable in 1 location

User Permission change to Attributes at the Project Level for Multi-Component Projects User defined permissions to artifacts and attributes are managed at the Project scope till Configuration Enabled then at the Stream scope per component. When pr...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Functional Safety Baseline Integrity Assurance

ELM could be used in support of Functional Safety Development Applications but only after qualifying the system and its Enterprise usage to 3rd Party Certification Body. As this comes at great expense to the ELM Customer and having just received t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 3 Future consideration

DOORS Next: Configuration of E-Mail Attributes for Comments on Artifacts

Current: At the moment an e-mail of a comment (discussion) looks like this: Subject: [ArtfaktType 123456] Artfiakt-Name-up-to-256-chars-or-advanced-setting-in-doorsnext-hiher-then-256-chars E-Mail: User-Name + again the Artifact-Name \n Comment-su...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Undo Function

An Undo Function similar to CTRL-Z in Office Applications is requested. Missing undo functionality for recent edit steps, especially for unintentional changes by “clicking and typing somewhere” in the req. definition or in another attribute in com...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration